Rhytida

Rhytida
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra

Superfamily: Rhytidoidea
Family: Rhytididae
Genus: Rhytida
Martens, 1860
Species

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Rhytida is a genus of medium-sized, air-breathing, predatory land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Rhytididae.

This is the type genus of the family.

Distribution

This genus is endemic to New Zealand.[1]

Species

Species and subspecies recognised in the genus Rhytida are:[2]

Note that the species/subspecies status of some of the above taxa is unclear and differs between sources.

References

  1. Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
  2. Checklist of New Zealand Mollusca

Further reading

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